Book Review: Risky Game
/A muscular NFL demigod is stalked by a spunky blogger in Tracy Solheim's latest "Out of Bounds" novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hope Ignites
/A hard-hearted cattle rancher is intrigued by the young Hollywood movie star filming shoot on his property in Jaci Burton's latest "Hope" novel
Read MoreBook Review: Willing Sacrifice
/A battle-hardened warrior must fight for the very memory of the woman he loves in Shannon Butcher's latest 'Sentinel Wars' novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Sweetheart Rules
/Three old ladies watch over a town in Florida where broken hearts go to mend in Shirley Jump's follow-up to "The Sweetheart Bargain"
Read MoreBook Review: The Transformation of the World
/A sprawling new history of the world during the 'long' 19th century
Read MoreCircumspice
/Ronald Reagan single-handedly ended the Cold War at Reykjavik in 1985. And if you believe that, his loyal aid Ken Adelman has a book to sell you.
Read MoreSkilled in the Ways of the Desert
/A fascinating new book tells the remarkable stories of five ‘improbable’ women who defied convention to explore the much mythologised landscape of the Middle East.
Read MoreThe Important Difference
/Is it really the immigrant writer’s job to represent third-world suffering for the sake of first-world catharsis? In All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu resists the pressure to substitute autoethnography for art.
Read MoreLeft Wanting
/Elia Kazan's unwavering confidence in his own brilliance was the spur to his successes as a director and the source of his infamy as a Cold War canary. A new collection of his letters makes his outsized personality seem even larger.
Read MorePaper Mausoleums
/Rock music is all about inflaming the senses. Rock biographies, on the other hand, are built from facts and reasoned explanations. Matthew Stevens looks at a study of the life of Big Star frontman Alex Chilton, and wonders what fans can get out of it.
Read Morepantograph
/a poem
Read MoreTitle Menu: 8 books where bad decisions make good protagonists
/Characters never go wrong when their poor life choices make for fascinating reading. Kathleen Rooney supplies us with eight unmissable examples.
Read MoreStrange Troubador
/Joseph Roth spent his life fighting the kind of lazy dangers that arise from the rot of empire, even as his life and his letters embodied so many of them.
Read MoreThe Selves in Ourself
/In Valeria Luiselli's debut novel, a young Mexican woman imagines the real life of a long-dead man whose writings she has forged in the voice of a famous American poet. Then things get complicated.
Read MoreEcho Chamber Blues
/Marvel Comics is mopping up at the box office, but what of its rival DC? Our resident expert fisks the also-rans and reminds us about an epic story still waiting to be adapted.
Read MoreSo Why Write?
/As the world's supply of writers outpaces the world's demand for their books, the financial returns for writing have fallen to laughable levels. Then why keep doing it? Paul Griffin explores the problem of writing and money.
Read MoreAriel: Shelley in Italy
/Like so many before him, the celebrated Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had a tangled and complicated history with Italy, equal parts inspiration and frustration. Luciano Mangiafico tells the story
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The past lies like a nightmare upon the present”
/A troika of mysteries—one a gripping debut, Precious Thing by Colette McBeth, the others superb new novels from two very special authors: Peter Robinson returns with Children of the Revolution and Donna Leon is back with By Its Cover.
Read MoreFrom the Archive: Prediction
/a poem
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